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Reported Iranian Nuclear Deal: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
November 7 and 8 nuclear talks at most may offer Iran modest temporary relief in return for major concessions.
How they're presented remains to be seen. How they're implemented is another matter.
Longstanding anti-Iranian hostility remains unresolved. Washington wants it that way. So does Israel.
Netanyahu wants no concessions offered. He calls any deal a bad one. It's "very dangerous for peace and the international community," he claims. It's hard imagining more convoluted thinking.
Israeli Settlements Are War Crimes
by Stephen Lendman
On March 22, 1979, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 446. It determined that Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestine and other Arab territories "have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East."
It deplored Israel's refusal to comply with numerous other Security Council resolutions.
It called on Israel, "as the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, to rescind its previous measures and to desist from taking any action which would result in changing the legal status and geographical nature and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the occupied Arab territories."
Healthcare Professionals Involvement in US Torture
by Stephen Lendman
On November 4, an independent panel of military, ethics, medical, public health, and legal experts said Pentagon and CIA officials directed doctors and psychologist to ignore medical ethics, principles and standards.
Post-9/11, the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers said they collaborate in securing intelligence.
"(D)esigning, participating in, and enabling torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" substituted for do no harm. Established practices continue.
Dr. Gerald Thomson is Columbia University Professor of Medicine Emeritus. He's duly outraged.
Israel Killed Arafat
by Stephen Lendman
On November 11, 2004, Arafat died in a Paris hospital. He was 75. He was hospitalized for an undiagnosed illness.
It developed in April. It got worse. He deteriorated badly. He needed special care. On November 3, he slipped into a coma. Days later he died.
Previous articles discussed his death. It wasn't accidental. It wasn't natural. Credible evidence points to assassination.
Israel wanted him eliminated. He became more liability than asset. His former aide, Hani al-Hassan, said he personally witnessed 13 attempts on his life.
Arafat said he survived 40 attempts. In 1985, he narrowly escaped an Israeli air attack on his Tunisian headquarters. It killed 73 people. He went jogging shortly before Israel struck.
In December 2001, Israeli missiles struck his Ramallah compound. He was rushed to safety shortly before the attack.
An Israeli military spokesman called the strike a warning. It sent a message. Arafat was marked for death.
Iran Nuclear Talks Resume
by Stephen Lendman
November 7 and 8 talks are scheduled in Geneva. They continue where mid-October ones left off.
Previous rounds failed. It's hard imagining success this time. Iran's nuclear program is pretext. At issue is replacing its government.
Washington deplores independent ones. Regime change is planned. Obama is more duplicitous than George Bush.
John Kerry's dark side matches Hillary Clinton's. Wendy Sherman is Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
She heads Obama's Geneva negotiating team. She's militantly anti-Iranian. She lied to Congress.
Flynt and Hillary Leverett discussed it. She told Senate Foreign Relations Committee members:
"We know that deception is part of (Iran's) DNA."
If she said this about Israel, America's NATO partners or valued Middle East allies, she's be summarily fired.
Sudden shift in Iran negotiations draws Kerry to Geneva
Michael Collins
"Diplomatic heavyweights including US Secretary of State John Kerry have flown to Geneva for nuclear talks on Iran, in a sign that there could be an end to a decade-long deadlock. However, Israel has resolved to reject any proposal under discussion." RT, Nov 8
Russian President Vladimir Putin scored a perfecta in September when he offered up two deals the Obama administration couldn't refuse. The first was chemical weapons disarmament by Syria. That was followed closely by an opening by Iran's new president to the United States and the West. Syrian disarmament has gone very well senior foreign ministry officials from Iran, Germany, the UK, and France began talks on Iran's nuclear program. (Image: AndrewDallos))
It is highly symbolic that Secretary Kerry interrupted his Middle East trip to fly to fly to Geneva where major progress has been made between European and Iranian negotiators. Today, Kerry spent two hours with Israeli Prime Minister Netahyahu. The PM insists that the U.S. reject any deal with Iran outright, although Netanyahu has no basis for the demand since there's not deal at hand.
The Debtor’s War: A Modern Greek Tragedy
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall
Early on Thursday, 7 November 2013, Greek riot police stormed the offices of Greece’s main public broadcaster, which had been under a five-month occupation by workers who opposed the government’s decision to shutdown the broadcaster, firing thousands and destroying a major cultural institution. The broadcast seems to have come to an end.
The long and painful Greek tragedy continues, where society and culture are gutted, people impoverished, driven into a deep depression, with growing political and social conflicts, the rise of fascism, detention camps filled with immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, trying to escape the dictators we arm, or the wars we support, with suicide rates spiking, health and well-being deteriorate, services and support vanish, and all the people are left to be punished, humiliated, oppressed and destroyed… These are called “solutions” to an economic crisis, on the road to “economic recovery”… think about that for a moment.
Netanyahu Launches Anti-Iranian Twitter Campaign
by Stephen Lendman
He's obsessed with Iran. He's Israel's worst ever leader. He exceeds Sharonian evil. He responded harshly to Hassan Rohani's election.
He attacked him unfairly. He called his agenda "talk and enrich. Talk and continue to enrich uranium. For future nuclear weapons."
"We cannot accept anything less than the total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, removal from Iran of all enriched nuclear material, closure of Iran's elicit nuclear facilities," he said.
"Until Iran meets these demands, pressure must be stepped up and Iranian nuclear program must be stopped. Period."
His Twitter campaign is called "The Real Face of Iran." He's targeting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. More on it below.
Institutionalized Spying Targets Freedom
by Stephen Lendman
Out-of-control spying reflects America's true face. At stake are fundamental rights too important to lose.
They're gravely eroded already. They're headed toward disappearing altogether. They may not survive much longer.
Everybody spies on everyone else. America likely does it best of all. It spies on friends and foes alike.
In "Animal Farm," Orwell said "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others." As the world's sole superpower, America is most of all.
Expect no policy change. A previous article discussed Senate legislation legitimizing lawless surveillance. Obama wants it and then some.
On November 2, The New York Times headlined "No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming NSA."
It wants nothing escaping scrutiny. Privacy no longer exists.
Whitewashing Crime in Israel
by Stephen Lendman
Whitewashing it in high places doesn't surprise. Israeli injustice is longstanding. It's systemic. Avigdor Lieberman's acquittal on serious charges is the latest example.
Imagine. Palestinian children accused of stone throwing are detained, isolated, interrogated, intimidated, terrorized, fined and at times imprisoned. It's standard practice whether or not they did anything.
Lieberman reflects the worst of Israeli politics. He's a former nightclub bouncer. He's an ultranationalist extremist.
He represents Israel's lunatic fringe. He's a latter day Kahanist. In 1988, Israel outlawed his Kach party. It was called a "threat to national security."
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